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Excerpt from Celebration of the Seventy-Third Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of the United States, on Board the Barque "Hannah Sprague," At Sea, July 4th, 1849 Though I love and would praise above all other lands, the land that gave me birth, I am not blind nor insensible to the beauties of other climes and the noble grandeur of other nations. The sunny skies and melting minstrelsy of fair Italia 3' the scholastic fame and hardy industry of Germania' sons the refinement and elegance of la belle France and the might and grandeur of old merry England, are none the less remembered or the less esteemed because our fondest cords of(6) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.